Enola Holmes: The Case of the Left-Handed Lady

The second in the series by Nancy Springer: The Case of the Left-Handed Lady. Lots more feminist movement stuff, a bunch of working class rights advocating, and just the right amount (for the time period) of female/poor bashing.

Plus a lot of costume changes and sisterly bonding (over being missing/secret-suffragettes).

["Enola's name backwards spells "alone," and alone she is, in the world's biggest, darkest, dirtiest city. She is being hunted down by the world's most famous detective - her own brother, Sherlock Holmes. For the sake of freedom she must elude him, but what can she do to ease her loneliness?

When she discovers a hidden cache of brilliant charcoal drawings, she feels as if she's a soul mate to the girl who drew them - but that girl, young Lady Cecily, has disappeared without a trace. Braving midnight streets where murderers roam, Enola must unravel the clues - a leaning ladder, a shifty-eyed sales clerk, political pamphlets - to find the left-handed lady, but in order to save Lady Cecily from a powerful villain, Enola risks revealing more than she should. Will hero own lonely heart betray her?"]

To see my complete obsessive paragraphs on this series and feminism as a whole (as well as the importance of said representation in children's literature), please see the post about The Case of the Missing Marques (the first installment of the Enola Holmes series).

Now I'm off to start the third novel: The Case of the Bizarre Bouqeuts. 

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